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Creating an event ​

Audience: Event organisers setting up a new competition in Manager.

How to create an event, edit its settings, and understand the options that shape how the event runs.

The Events page ​

Open Manager and navigate to Events (this is where you land by default). The page has two tabs:

  • Upcoming — future and currently-running events, newest first.
  • History — past and completed events, with a search field to filter by name.

Each event is shown as a card with its name, date, and a coloured status chip that represents Setup, In Progress, Completed and Abandoned.

Clicking a card opens that event's dashboard. If another event is already Live, Manager will ask you to confirm before switching.

Creating a new event ​

There are two ways to create an event:

  • New Event — creates an empty event with default settings. You then edit the details to fit your competition.
  • New from Eventor — creates an event by importing from Eventor. See Creating an event from Eventor.

New Event ​

Click New Event (top of the page, or in the welcome section if this is your first event). No dialog appears — Manager creates the event immediately and opens it at its dashboard.

The new event is in Setup mode and gets:

  • Name — today's day of the week (e.g. "Thursday event").
  • Date — today.
  • Everything else — inherited from Settings → Event Defaults (start/finish unit numbers, event type, radio settings, etc.).

You'll almost always want to change at least the name and date. Open the event details from the dashboard (see Editing event details below) and edit anything you need to before adding competitors or going live.

Tip: The defaults are there to save you repeating the same choices event after event. If you find yourself changing the same field on every new event, set it in Settings → Event Defaults instead.

Editing event details ​

Once inside an event, click the edit icon on the Event header card (on the dashboard) to open the Event Details dialog. This is where you configure everything about how the event runs.

If the event was imported from Eventor, the dialog title shows an Eventor ID chip for traceability.

The dialog is organised into tabs down the left-hand side:

  • Details — name, date, description, classification
  • Radio Controls — meshO Prime, SI codes for start/finish/check, radio-punch forwarding, SIRAP
  • Starts — mass start, punching-start override
  • Auto Backup — periodic backups of the event
  • Splits Print — auto-print, QR code, per-event overrides
  • Extensions — enable and configure installed extensions

Details ​

  • Event name — editable at any time. Must be at least 3 characters.
  • Event date — editable in Setup mode; locked once the event goes Live.
  • Description — optional free-text notes about the event.
  • Event Type — Individual, Relay, etc. Affects how competitors and start times are organised.
  • Competition Level — Local, National, etc. Currently informational; used by exports and reports.
  • Discipline — Sprint, Middle, Long, etc. Currently informational; used by exports and reports.

Radio Controls ​

This tab covers everything about radio-delivered punches.

meshO Prime — toggle on if you have a meshO Prime radio network in the field. When on, Manager listens for radio punches from your Prime base unit.

SI codes — radio punches carry only an SI control code (e.g. 2), not a "start" / "finish" / "check". Manager uses these fields to know what each code means at this event. Any code not listed here is treated as a regular radio control along a course.

  • Start Codes — SI codes of your start units.
  • Finish Codes — SI codes of your finish units.
  • Check Codes — SI codes of your check units.

Enter one or more codes per field, comma-separated. The same code can't appear in more than one field. These remain editable during the event.

Forward Radio Punches (visible only when meshO Prime is on) — forwards each incoming radio punch to the destinations configured in Settings → Forwarding.

Accept SIRAP Punches — accept incoming SIRAP-protocol punches from external sources.

Starts ​

Mass Start — toggle on if all or most competitor starts at the same time. When on, set the Mass Start Time. Defaults to 10:00:00 the first time you enable it.

Allow punching starts to override allocated starts — if a competitor punches a start unit, use that punch as their start time even if they had an allocated start time. Turn off if your event uses strict allocated starts only. This can also be overriden for each competitor, if required.

Auto Backup ​

Enable auto backup — when on, Manager periodically copies the event folder to an auto-backup/ directory inside the event's folder while the event is running. You can restore from these with the standard restore-from-backup flow.

Backup frequency — how often to take a backup (e.g. every 15 minutes).

Splits Print ​

Per-event overrides for the global splits-printer settings configured in Settings → Splits Printer.

  • Automatic print splits on download — use the global setting, force on, or force off for this event.
  • Disable meshO logo on print — use the global setting, force on, or force off for this event.

QR code — a QR code printed at the bottom of each competitor's splits, generated from a URL template. Three modes:

  • Use global setting — uses the template from Settings → Splits Printer.
  • Customise for this event — set a URL template just for this event. Supported placeholders: {competitorId}, {eventId}, {cardNumber}. A Use this server's spectator URL button fills in a sensible default. You can also set a custom caption printed below the code.
  • Disable for this event — no QR code is printed, regardless of the global setting.

Extensions ​

Each installed extension appears with a switch. Enabling an extension reveals its per-event configuration fields (extensions can also have app-wide configuration set on the Extensions page).

If no extensions are installed, the tab shows a hint pointing to the Extensions page.

Deleting an event ​

On the Events page, hover over an event card to reveal a delete button (red trash icon, top-right corner). Click it and confirm. This permanently removes the event and all its data. There is no undo.

What's locked when Live ​

Once you click Start event, the event date becomes read-only. Changing the date of a running event would invalidate time calculations.

Everything else — name, description, classification, radio settings, unit codes, starts configuration, competitors, classes, courses, start times — remains editable throughout the event.